The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-07-27
NEW LINES OF WORK.
WHY WOMEN WOULD MAKE GOOD
APOTHECARIES.


!.POTHECARIEs.
Pharmacy Within the Sphere of Woman's
USefulness--A Successful New Orleans
Female Druggist.
(From the Philadelphia Record.)
The time is past for asking the ques-
ton whether women ought to work;
they do work. There is no longer any
need to inquire what they are able to do.
They are employed in almost every call
ing. With their assistance our little
ones learn of the common things OF life
in the Kindergarten; orlr older ehildren
meet them as superintendents Of schools
and professors in colleges; their quick
fingers have been rapidly trained in the
kindred occupations of shorthand and
type-writing; as florists many of them
are succeeding, and (what employment
could be more ftting?) as professional
nurses they find exceeding favor in the
sick-room; as authors they are winning
fame and fortune; in painting and in
dustrial designing they are making rapid
progress; as physicians they have fairly
won acknowledgement of their useful
ness; as lawyers they have shown ur-
looked-for ability; as preachers, readers
and lecturers they have not lacked ap.
plause, and in almost every wege-earn-
ing capacity they have undertaken they
have proved tbal ii they will they make
an honorable living.
NEGLECTED LINES OF WORK.
But, Notwithstanding the push and
enterprise which distinguish tie sex in
forcing tleir way into great diversity
of empioyments, the iact remains that
some callings which are eminently suited
to woman are sadly neglected by them.
That of the druggist, acknowledged to
be among the best paying occupations,
finds comparatively few women in its
ranks. II mistake not Mrs. Rudolph,
of New Orleans, was t.ie first woman to
own and conduct a drug store. Her
husband was druggist, and when he
died, about nine years ago, leaving her
two babies and brave heart as her sole
heritage, she determined to fill his place.
To this end she applied for pharma-
ceutical course at the Tulane Medical
College, which was denied her. She
then began system OF private lessons
under tie Professor Of Pharmacy, and
in two years graduated with credit and
received the hearty endorsement of the
Examining Board. Then came the
struggle with an overwhelming popular
prejudice against allowing woman to
Cole out powders and pills, which might,
after all, have wrecked the success of
her enterprise but for some just and rea-
soning physicians who held out helping
hands to her and brought hcr safely into |
the haven OF prosperity. Now she is
one Of the most prosperous druggists in
New Orleans.
WOMEN AT THE PRESCRIPTION DESK.
In spite of struggles, Mrs. Rudolph is
enthusiastic on the subject, and strongly !
urges young women 10 the study and
practice Of pharmacy. She says that any
young woman who has the ground work
of good education and is imbued with
determination and honesty of purpose
need 10 fear of failure. And to prove
the truth of her words, several women
in the business are meeting with marked
success. Miss Lucy King, Of Chatta
nooga, is noted as one of the ablest rep
sentatives of her profession. She is the
editress of the Drugman, a
paper endorsed and adopted by the State
Pharmaceutical Conventions Of Georgia
and Louisiana as their representative
journal. The quality which would seem
to make the genius of woman eminently
valuable at the prescription desk is the
rare caution which most of them exer-
rise when once warned of possible dan
GER GER and when so tsssllllihle an authority
as Huxley says the study OF chemistry
is peculiarly adapted to the feminine
mind, the point of their fitness as drug
gists' clerks passes out of the line Of dis
putatioa. The facilities for prosecuting
their studies nowadays in that direction
is another inducement for them to more
widely adopt the calling.
WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
Tie study Of medicine and its twin
science, pharmacy, by women is no new
thing. In the first medical school es-
tablished during the first Christian era
women taught side by side with men.
The school of Salernum contained IN its
faculty no names more respectable for
scientific zeal and attainments than those
of the three female professors-Trotula,
Rebecca and Abella-who were ready to
grayple the toughest subject in physi-
ology and medicine. Trotula wrote a
very learned dissertation which aided
much to her fame, and which was so
great for profound scholarship that
when the celebrated disputant, Rudolph
Mala Corona, went to that seat of learn
ing to try conclusions in science with its
professors she alone was considered
worthy antagonist. Abella was a poet
physician, and indited treatise on
ssBlack Bile" in Latin verse. The taste
of the learned Rebecca inclined IN the
same direction, and her works are found
in the older libraries. The mothers in
medicine, however, left no successors
worthy OF their fame, and their example
has not had many imitators IN the cen
turies since they hourished. In later
years women have again turned their
attention to the profession Of medicine,
which, however, on account Of its ardu-
GUS duties requires a remarkably robust
physique and strong nerves, and while |,
their tact and gentleness may be help
to them, it is an open ouestiod whether
their superabundant sympathy is not